Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.